filter.by.conservation {DepLogo}

Filters columns (sequence positions) by conservation

Description

Filters columns based on the relative information content of each column which is the standard information content normalized to the interval [0,1], where 0 corresponds to uniform distribution and 1 to perfect conservation of one nucleotide or amino acid, respectively.

Usage

filter.by.conservation(relative.ic)

Arguments

relative.ic

the maximum relative information content allowed to retain a position

Value

function that, given a DLData object, returns TRUE for every column that does not exceed the specified relative information content

Author(s)

Jan Grau <[e-mail]>

Examples

fun <- filter.by.conservation(relative.ic = 0.9)